Spanish veteran Carlos Sainz won the Dakar Rally in Argentina on Saturday as Peugeot bowed out with their third win in a row. The victory, ahead of Qatar’s two times winner Nasser al-Attiyah in a Toyota, handed Sainz his second title in the grueling endurance race that switched to South America from Africa in 2009 […]
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Peterhansel’s Dakar hopes grind to halt, Sainz grabs lead
STEPHANE Peterhansel’s hopes of a 14th Dakar title suffered a potential fatal blow on Saturday when his race-leading Peugeot was hit by a suspension failure which left him stranded for an hour and 45 minutes. The Frenchman, bidding for a third successive triumph on four wheels, came to a halt after 186km of the run […]
Mini Running Dakar with AWD Rally and RWD Buggy Models
– Mini may have started life as a tiny front-wheel-drive car in 1959, but that doesn’t prevent parent company BMW from altering that basic concept when it comes to racing. And racing is dear to Mini, especially the Dakar rally, which it won four times in a row from 2012 to 2015 and where it […]
Mini Running Dakar with AWD Rallye and RWD Buggy
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